The Santa Fe Suspension Bridge turns 96 years old
This Saturday June 8th, The Suspension Bridge of the city of Santa Fe turns 96 years old after its construction in 1928at which time it was inaugurated with the purpose of transferring water from Colastiné and crossing the waters of the Setúbal lagoon to join the West Coast with the East.
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In 1922, with the help of the Santa Fe Engineer Marcial Candioti In the presidency of Sanitary Works of the Nation, Engineer Antonio Paitoví is entrusted with a new project in which a semi-rigid bridge with three sections is proposed, which began to be built in mid-1924, and It was opened to the public on June 8, 1928 with the name of its propeller “Engineer Rafael Marcial Candioti”..
In parallel to the metal transportation structure, four decades later the construction of the Oroño Bridge, a fundamental complement to the Suspension Bridge that was inaugurated in 1970.
Everything worked well, until in 1983, as a result of a large flood of the Paraná River, the bridge collapsed and the symbol that represented Santa Fe for decades was completely flooded and truncated until April 2000, when the reconstruction work began. , which was revived in 2002.
This June 8, the maximum monument of the people of Santa Fe is more alive than ever, and is once again the flag of the people of Santa Fe for the country and the world.
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